Special Initiatives

  • Awards for Artists  (AA): Supports individual artists to develop their creative ideas by providing funding with no strings attached over three years.
  • Breakthrough Fund (BF): responds to the compelling visions of outstanding ‘cultural entrepreneurs’, offering support to them and their organisations to pursue these visions.
  • Jane Attenborough Dance in Education fellowships (JADE): enabled dance companies to support a dancer coming to the end of his or her career to make a successful transition to education and community work.
  • Learning Away (LA): supports schools in significantly enhancing young people’s learning, achievement and wellbeing by using innovative residential experiences as an integral part of the curriculum.
  • Learning Futures (LF): developed and trialled innovative methods of teaching and learning, which aimed to increase students’ engagement with their learning.
  • Musical Futures (MF): devised new and imaginative ways of engaging 11–19 year olds in meaningful, sustainable music activity.
  • Right Here (RH): develops new approaches to supporting the mental health and wellbeing of 16–25 year olds.
  • What Works? Student Retention & Success programme (WW): helps to build understanding about how best to support students once they arrive at university, in what is often a daunting new environment and learning context.

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